by Alicia | Nov 4, 2009 | News
I was scared to check my Blackberry this morning. We couldn’t lose both Prop 8 in California and Question 1 in Maine, right? Wrong. The Bangor Daily News in Bangor, Maine, reported the following results: “Unofficial Results sorted by race for 2009 November...
by Alicia | Oct 27, 2009 | News
At my TweetCamp Chicago presentation on October 10th, 2009, I discussed how arts journalists could use the Twitter application Hootsuite to organize and keep up with goings on at hundreds of museums. During the presentation, I noticed two Twitter models at play:...
by Alicia | Oct 21, 2009 | News
LGBT niche publications have provided us with the news we need for decades. Now, they’re in danger–if they keep up their old media ways. I just started reading Urvashi Vaid’s groundbreaking and still relevant book Virtual Equality (1996), which...
by Alicia | Oct 19, 2009 | News
Presentation: Professional Twitter Tips for Artists/Writers Tweet Camp 2009 It was an honor to speak at Tweetcamp Chicago on Twitter for artists and writers. Thank you to organizers Maura Hernandez and Keidra Chaney for thinking of me. In my discussion, which included...
by Alicia | Sep 1, 2009 | News
ChicagoNow’s Alicia Eler, Arts and Entertainment Community Manager, and ChicagoNow Editorial Director Tracy Samantha Schmidt participated in the keynote panel at University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana’s (College of Media, Department of Journalism)...
by Alicia | May 28, 2009 | Artist Essays, News, Response: Art & the Art of Criticism, Writing
Response: Art and the Art of Criticism with Carrie Schneider University of Illinois at Chicago’s I-Space Gallery April 24-May 30, 2009 Alicia recently participated in “Response: Art & the Art of Criticism” at I-Space Gallery (April 24-May 31, 2009), a show that...